The light you see tonight would be 323 years old. Are we alive and well?
Here comes my betrayer!”. “Peter, are you asleep? They would have had committees inside of committees and then a committee to make sure the other committees kept having their committee meetings. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Amen. I have learned a lot about putting a baby to sleep since December. But, if they had, I would have joined the restaurant, not the church.”. It means that we will be able to pray authentically the words of Jesus from our lesson in Mark “Not what I will, but what you will.”. Yet, it can be so easy to just go through the motions, sleep through Lent completely, to wake up on Easter morning, ready to celebrate the resurrection when nothing in our lives has really changed, it’s just another Easter. Wake up your faith. “Sit here while I pray.” He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. The body doesn’t know it yet but it is still dead. Those items for outreach and evangelism might be a line item with an amount set aside but they were often unused at the end of the year. When your alarm goes off, you can hit that button and go back to sleep. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. How do you spend your time? Are we knocking on death’s door this morning? That’s one of the temptations of the season of Lent, we just sleep through the season, we ignore the invitation to the Last Supper, the challenging prayer in the Garden, the torture and cross, hoping to wake up in resurrection. There are some churches today that are burned out. Don't you walk in there and look at those bills and lose your heart and lose your hope. The next morning, the phone rings at the appropriate time, and a computer-generated voice can be heard telling us the time. ( Log Out /
you will.” Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.
You can’t miss it. And yet with all of these things coming to pass in our own lifetime, how is it that so many are still walking carelessly as if there is no day of reckoning coming. We see the reputation of the church, the rigor mortis of the church, the reformation of the church and finally: Even in the dead church at Sardis, there were some who were holding fast to the faith.
Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation,” the temptation of falling asleep in our faith, the temptation to simply go through the motions. Some of the symptoms should give us pause. It was barren and still with a clammy coldness to the whole service. It was just such a happy place to be.
One afternoon he was playing in the house while his mother was out working in the yard. Are we vibrant and active? Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. You’ve been through it several times, some of us more than others. The city was proud of its past. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.
Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Remember who you were! People: Stay here and keep watch with me. One of the biggest dangers for us is losing our feeling, our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. I tried to argue with my wife Candace that I really wasn’t asleep, but she said I was snoring already, so it was probably true. The whole point of Lent is to reflect on our lives, acknowledge our sin, and follow Christ. If we want to wake from our slumber, one way to wake up is to find God in the midst of slowing down, seeking those holy moments, where we authentically reflect upon our lives and examine our lives, realize our honest mistakes, then rise up and follow. Look, the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
In Gethsemane, during this private moment of reflection and prayer, Jesus bears his heart to God the Father. Maybe there’s something deeper going on here than physical sleep though.
-Needed it spiritually, emotionally, mentally, professionally. has come. The Spirit got up and went. In a frame above where he prepared his lessons, was a verse that he looked at every day: You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the. I’m too old or I’m too young.
When these bodies die, there’s no more hope.
Couldn’t you keep watch for one hour?” Can you believe it? The products of technology that should simplify and improve the quality of life, but sometimes they take attention away from what is really important.”.
before. Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. Yet not what I will, but what. Perhaps if we serve the church or others with little to no joy, feeling like it’s an obligation rather than a privilege to serve God’s people then we might need to be wakened from our slumber. Let’s pray and then we’ll look at what Jesus says to this dead church.
Shopping? Wake Up. But we must also repent. Or, have we allowed ourselves to become weak and ill? If you would ask them about it and they would simply say, “We’re too dignified for that kind of thing.".
Who do you look up to? There can be restoration. May it be so. They had better things to do, like sleep, which to new parents, or maybe even to you, is the best possible thing to do. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.
Theses churches became inward focused. For all intents and purposes, the city of Sardis was dead even though it still lived. The glory of God has departed from them.
“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. Dr. Criswell said, “I went out of that restaurant so happy and so blessed.
Sometimes it’s a good one and sometimes it’s a bad one. We see the reputation of the church; the rigor mortis of the church and the third thing is: The Lord gave them another opportunity to reform, to get right and to get back to where they needed to be. They had just heard the greatest sermon men have ever heard in this world; they had just heard its climax in the greatest prayer ever prayed. The Charles Spurgeon Sermon Collection is home to over 3,000 sermons written by C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1893) ... Wake Up! To be “clothed in white” means to be set apart for God, cleansed from sin, and made spiritually pure. A lot of alarm clocks have a button on them called a snooze alarm.
Whenever anything dies, a person or a church, the spirit goes. They would have had regular gospel concerts. Sometimes wake up calls come in other forms. Watch and pray, experience Jesus offering you love, grace, and forgiveness. Instead, “being awake” means being spiritually ready, most often for the return of Christ, but it also means being spiritually ready for whatever may come next in life. Stay here and keep watch with me. The church in Sardis had a reputation of being alive but the second thing we see in this letter is the: You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.
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